Pain in the neck: Rosie Perez is suing Law and Order

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Rosie Perez injured on set

Actress Rosie Perez is suing Law & Order: SVU after sustaining a neck injury while on set two years ago.

Rosie Perez is suing the production companies forLaw & Order: SVU because she says they should have used a stunt professional during one particular fight scene, resulting in her sustaining a neck injury.

The accident happened two years ago when the actress was filming a scene in which she was fighting with another actress through the window of a car. Another actor, playing a passerby, pulled Perez off the actress. The filming required several takes, resulting in Perez's neck herniation.

Perez's attorney, Brian O'Dwyer, said that she has had severe pain and numbness in her arms and has been out of work for a year. She had to undergo a discectomy and fusion of her vertebrae.